Chinese AI researchers based overseas sweep top awards at leading computer vision conference CVPR
- At the CVPR this year, both papers that clinched top awards were led by Chinese researchers
- The scientists are based in colleges abroad, reflecting a broader trend of Chinese AI talent pursuing opportunities overseas
At this year’s Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), which kicked off on Tuesday, the two papers that clinched the top awards at the event shared one thing in common – both were led by Chinese artificial intelligence researchers.
The Best Paper award, picked by a committee to recognise the best work appearing at the conference, went to a study led by Shangzhe Wu, a Chinese PhD student at the Oxford University. The paper, co-authored with Wu’s Oxford peers Christian Rupprecht and Andrea Vedaldi, looked at recovering the three-dimensional (3D) shape of an object from a single-view image.
The Best Student Paper award, which recognises the best paper submitted where the first author was a student at the time of submission, was a paper that proposed a network to facilitate 3D computer learning. The award was presented to Zhiqin Chen, a Chinese PhD student at Canada's Simon Fraser University, and his co-authors, SFU professor Hao Zhang and Google scientist Andrea Tagliasacchi.
CVPR is considered a top-tier conference in the area of computer vision, an important branch of AI which is widely used in facial recognition, object tracking and autonomous driving.
Notably, all of the Chinese researchers that worked on the two top CVPR papers this year are based abroad.